#meat timeline

[disguisedcheezed]

goofy ahh corpse.

#dirkjohn #johndirk #dirk strider #john egbert #ult dirk #ultimate dirk #hs^2 #hsbc #meat timeline #ult dirkjohn #homestuck #mine #'is he falling in love with himself? and idealized version of john thats in his head? or is john soul around and dirk can somehow hear him? #or ult!dirk is insane and need therapy hmmmmmmm' #-bug #lmao #bug.bites #FUCKING....... FFFFFFFFFF UUHHHHHHH...... DIET NECR #HEEELLPPP... SOMEONE HELPP MEEEEE

[bootpoot]

WIP (trying to get out of artblock)

comms are still being drawn dw!!! i am just trying to get out of a mini artblock

#homestuck #hs #hs dirk #dirk homestuck #ult dirk #homestuck dirk #dirk strider #dirk strider fanart #dirk strider art #dirk strider hs #homestuck fanart #homestuck art #hs art #homestuck dirk strider #homestuck epilogues #hs epilogues #meat timeline #hs meat timeline #ultimate dirk #art wip #current wip

[kosonah]

Some johnrezi inbetween comms

#my art #homestuck #johnrezi #john egbert #terezi pyrope #meat timeline #homestuck 2 #hs2

[cruelcruelsummr]

okay I’m not a huge dirkjohn shipper but. epilogue dirkjohn

specifically ult dirk and candy john. like, total control of the narrative villain vs some divorced father. and then they kiss

#homestuck epilogues #homestuck #dirk strider #john egbert #dirkjohn #ultimate dirk #candy timeline #meat timeline

[dogboa2]

a smile could be good bro😅

#homestuck #roxy lalonde #meat timeline #homestuck epilogues #my art

[hyliacrystal]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about it yet but doesn’t the character paths in beyond canon seem similar to idea behind Complacency of the Learned. Maybe I should beef back up on it but. Kids that become as powerful as gods and all go some form of crazy with the power? Like power of that kind can twist and bastardize any personality. Why would someone with that power have to grow as a person, are they even a person anymore? I think it would be easy for any of them to decide their mistakes/flaws didn’t matter in the grand scheme of who they are and what they meant to Earth C.

#maybe I’m just rambling about things that make no sense #maybe I’m just lame for wanting to see how warped these characters become because of the pedestals they inhabit. #homestuck #homestuck beyond canon #candy #candy timeline #meat timeline

[monster4hire]

vl presentszz…. dirkjake Sadsad radio!

1. Holy ghost - modern baseball

2. Man of war - radiohead

3. Star - mitski

4. All my happiness is gone - purple mountains

5. Lucky charms - moldy peaches

6. It ain’t me, babe - bob dylan

7. Good guy - julia jacklin

8. Pictures of you - the cure

9. Once more to see you - mitski

#dirkjake #dirkjake angst #sadstuck #homestuck #413 #dirk strider #jake english #Oh god guys i’m sorry about this i know these kinds of posts don’t do over well but i just can’t stop thinking #i had to share #they hurt me so good #owwwwww #Beeee with me alone with me alone with me #sadstuck dirkjake #ultimate dirk #ult dirk #earth c #candy timeline #meat timeline #mitski #dgd #dream ghost dirk #ghost dirk #homestuck epilogues

[canisalbus]

✦ Hound mode ✦

#meat! food for the pack! we're eating well tonight! #for context I mentioned earlier that in their setting normal four-legged dogs don't exist #which is a bummer since in canon timeline Vasco likes to hunt and in that era hunting usually involved a lot of hounds #and they just have to do without #own art #own characters #CanisAlbus #art #artists on tumblr #Machete #Vasco #anthro #sighthound #dogs #canine #animals #modern au #comics #typically sighthounds are also known for their high prey drive but I think Machete's reaction time and fitness leave a lot to be desired

[bloobydabloob]

You doing good dude

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #dirk strider #dirkjake #jake english #hs fanart #blooby posting #post canon #I hope this reads. Ignore if it doesn’t #I am very much interested in their post canon relationship #I won’t ramble in tags but… meat timeline DirkJake. Something wrong with you guys #Love it #He is always having such a fun time on Theseus man #I’m sure of it

[hal9000fanboy]

born to be used (mspaint, 2024)

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #rose lalonde fanart #rose lalonde #dirk strider #ultimate dirk strider #rosebot #james roach please make the next update meat timeline so i can have more angst #not dirkrose #i never use tags like this #noo rose dont destroy yourself for the father you never had #throwing up #i need you like i need a gaping head wound

[starflungwaddledee]

wait, since kirby has been manipulated mentored by galacta to be more cold- hearted, how does he react to affection in this state? (hugs, sharing, etc.)

cw for abusive manipulation tactics. like.. mind games. just in case. this response is a little dark just by merit of it being about psychological manipulation through lying, so take care.

kirby is as affectionate and loving as ever! he actually adores galacta knight, who stole the existing trust and familial affection kirby already felt for meta knight when they switched places.

there's a line in the another dimension fight comic, where galacta knight says "he's my family now, as he could have been yours.", and he means this truly. where meta knight was always a little stoic and guarded with his feelings, galacta knight is quick and easy with affection when it suits him, and reaps the rewards instantly

but what he does is targeted. if he were going after someone else (like bandee or dedede) he'd use a different tactic. kindness only works this well because kirby is so isolated and lonely, and craves it so desperately

this is super important i think; his core traits are the same as always. kirby is a good little guy!

he wants to be a hero. he wants to have friends and have a fun time and keep the people he loves safe. he wants to be good and to do the right thing with all his heart, it's just that what is "good" and "the right thing" is being purposefully warped around him

maybe it's good to act pre-emptively to prevent a war with the nation in the clouds, especially when they acted aggressively first.

maybe it's good to seek out and squash any trace of dark matter before it can infect anyone else, even if it's currently harmless.

maybe it's good to put that clearly possessed person out of their misery on sight, so they don't have to suffer anymore, because you couldn't save them anyway, right?

for bandee, who becomes aware this is happening, it's heart-breaking to watch. but he can't confide in kirby, because galacta knight's claws are too deep in him. also he will not put the pressure on kirby to keep a secret that could get them all killed

all he can do is try to be there to keep kirby safe, and hope he can reverse the wish before kirby crosses a threshold of misery or ruthlessness they cannot get him back from

#haha sorry this timeline just really sucks for everybody!! #did you think we could only make bandee and meta knight sad; sike!! we can put *kirby* in the meat grinder too. #but it's okay because bandee is here and bandee loves him truly and deeply and will always be there for him and never give up on him!!! #bandee will fix the entire broken timeline just so that kirby can smile again!!! #once galacta knight learns he can make meta knight suffer by turning bandee into a sad lil smear of tangerine paste though... #he does of course come straight for their friendship with the force of a thousand suns. #asks #awtdy au #my art #cw angst

[disguisedcheezed]

At least someone is happy to see him.

#dirkjohn #johndirk #john egbert #dirk strider #homestuck #hs^2 #ult dirk #meat timeline #part 617128387188 of chess creating something at 12am then promply pass out #its ''art'' #mine #who did this. #<-looking around as if i had someone else to blame. #500plus #500???!?!? HOW #ult dirkjohn

[seer-of-life-knight-of-doom]

a handy chart to distinguish the Lalonde-Striders and Vantas-Maryams

#homestuck #dirk strider #kankri vantas #dave strider #Kanaya maryam #karkat vantas #rose lalonde #porrim maryam #roxy lalonde #HS:BC #the guy in the middle is transmasc roxy from the meat timeline

[tenspontaneite]

Sigs make interesting bodies for themselves sometimes 🙏

#rain world #no significant harassment #assembly #3sig+ #this body is designed and produced substantially post assembly into the 3sig+ timeline #it's intended as a mobile bioengineering bay capable of producing neuron flies for iterators who have a shortage or who can't make their own #it has a technological version of centiwing flight and can get around very quickly #and is an effective hunter. meat fuels its mostly biological body and allows it to produce more neurons #sigs who pilot these platforms will find themselves deadlier than usual as they did a pretty good job with the body's hunting instincts #this is good because my sigs are usually ass at fighting #the body starts out the size of the largest regular centipedes but can molt and grow larger as it ages #i imagine with time they can get a good bit larger than a red centipede #this is definitely the most visually intimidating body a sig has designed so far #they usually prefer cuter or lower key forms #bug #insect #arthropod #centipede

[daily-jadeharl3y]

Have you read the Epilogues?

#homestuck #jade harley #ult dirk #harlesdaily #hi actual blog owner here #okay personally i thought the epilouges had extreme amounts of potential #but it was just completely ruined with a LOT of shock and stupid mischaracterizations #like jesus they butchered jades character so much it makes me so irritated to know just how sloppy her writing was #however; #i wouldve actually wnjoyed the mischaracterizations of said character if they expanded on the meta behind the true legitimacy of these #beyond canon timelines #and focused more on the games functionings than the stupid weird character stuff they implemented #i wouldve LIKED and HOPED that they would expand on the narrative on their timelines not being real and have had some resolve but it was #just wasted potential imo #really thats all i feel abt it personally i rlly like the meat timeline more than candy #candy was rlly boring for me

[red-elric]

okay coming back to it now. very large parts of terezi's entire way of reacting to things center around vriska, no matter what terezi era we're talking about. when they were kids and friends, when they had their falling out and hated each other, when she had to live with the guilt of killing vriska, and when she had to live with the knowledge that she needed vriska alive to be happy and to fix the alpha timeline; it all comes back to vriska serket.

vriska's not an easy person to be friends with, largely due to her own unique issues. she was in a position where she had to grow up and conform to alternian societal standards much faster than any of the other trolls to survive, given the nature of her lusus. she had the strength of personality to pull it off, for better or for worse, so vriska spent her childhood pushing herself into being as adult and dominant as she could possibly be, following in the footsteps of mindfang and cutting out or belittling anyone who couldnt keep up with her. and she liked terezi! she knew about redglare and was a little bit obsessed with terezi, especially the parts of terezi that imitated redglare, and terezi probably really liked that attention and played into it quite a bit. she modeled a decent chunk of her personality after redglare's story, with the legislacerator ambitions and the dragons and the connection to vriska/mindfang, and ended up closer to vriska than anyone else. they were a team, and they had fun together, and vriska's entire attention was on her, at least the positive parts of it.

vriska's interactions with tavros (and probably also several others, including eridan, karkat, kanaya, and whoever else failed to meet her standards) were a very immediate, real example of what could happen if terezi lost vriska's attention and became 'l8me,' in vriskas eyes. not only would it be personally devastating to lose focus from her best friend, but it would also be potentially very, very dangerous to terezi, and I think terezi definitely knew that. when the scourge vs charge drama played out, we see terezi hesitant to act against vriska in her conversation with aradia; she warns aradia to let her handle it, but doesnt take action quickly enough. she's definitely trying to stall and let people cool down some, but aradia wont let it slide and retaliates against vriska herself, leading to vriska's retaliation back against aradia, of course. the stakes are higher, vriska has proven again that she wants to always have the last say, and terezi has to either let it slide, kill her altogether, or retaliate too weakly and open herself up to direct danger from vriska. she chooses to try and kill her (saying as much in her conversation with vriska right before the cue ball explosion, btw), but ultimately vriska survives and blinds her back.

at this point, terezi chooses not to continue to escalate. she says its because vriska blinding her is the best thing to ever happen to her; while I believe that's probably true to an extent, given that it put her in contact with her lusus, there's more to it than that. it completely stops the conflict between the trolls--she was the last harmed, and she doesnt want any payback; vriska is satisfied having the last say and shouldnt have an excuse to hurt anyone else. which is all well and good! but this action, choosing to set her own grievances aside for the sake of keeping the peace, is like..... classic self worth issues. couple that with terezi's favorite part of herself--her blindness--being inextricably tied to vriska, as something vriska did for her; terezi's self worth is now also inextricably tied to vriska. but terezi doesnt want anyone to see that, so she jokes and laughs and acts strangely to throw people off. if people think shes a weirdo because she WANTS them to, shes winning, right?

karkat I think is the only one who gets close to seeing behind all of this. vriska doesnt come CLOSE (which btw is why I dont really like endgame scourge sisters as moirails!! I think terezi is great for vriska but vriska is still terrible for her!!! preretcon terezi and (vriska) as matesprits makes much more sense to me but whatever). karkat has a real talent for seeing through people's bullshit to what theyre really thinking, and he's probably second in the 'forced to grow up early' race between the trolls (except its a little different for him because its more beneficial for him if he hides himself, rather than making a dominant stand like vriska), and he really, really likes terezi. I think they gravitate towards one another post scourge vs charge bc karkat just has this unconditional love in his heart for..... everyone, really, but especially terezi, and thats something terezi with her low self worth really relies on to recover from vriska not being her friend anymore. but karkat is his own bag of worms; he has so much going on and he gives conflicting signals and hes scared to commit to her (mostly because he has a hard time fitting in with troll romantic patterns tbh) and that drives terezi away because she thinks he doesnt like her as much as she likes him. also, I think at this point shes probably starting to consider him a better person than her, possibly due to his refusal to associate with vriska from the start, which comes to a head later pre retcon (that one DEVASTATING convo betwen them in the meenah flashes). so she runs away.

dave is really easy to talk to when all terezi wants is to hide from her feelings and her friends, because that is absolutely what dave wants too. they fall really quickly into a surface level only rapport and become really quick close friends by just.... being the person the other can talk to without it being a federal fucking issue. its something terezi really needed in that moment, and something that worked for dave at the time too. but still, even that relationship was all about vriska, because by this point terezi knew vriska was spending all her time talking to john. and terezi might 'know' that there is no john versus dave thing, but vriska thinks there is, and is certainly acting like the dave vs john thing is actually a terezi vs vriska thing, and its hard for terezi to stay out of that completely; shes the one who brings it up to dave, after all, and they talk about it more than john and vriska do iirc. and isnt it funny how, despite knowing that dave would never reach god tier or surpass johns ability, terezi picked him anyway and sided with the underdog without a fight? how she rolled over and let vriska win again?

(also, retcon timeline side note!!! I bet it really fucked with terezi when john told her not to date dave either because it didnt work out and wasnt good for either of them, but especially not for dave!!! she was just trying to have some easy fun without any sweeps old drama like with vriska or karkat and heres john from another timeline telling her going down that path would be bad for dave!!! alt terezi didnt tell him to do that!!! aishdjchjswbgdjchsjsj)

anyway. when terezi finally gears up to have her showdown with vriska, its not for her own sake. its because vriska killed tavros, and because terezi was pretty sure she had killed a few others as well (incorrect, but like.... of course terezi was gonna think that she was obsessed with vriska from the start), and because she felt as though there was only one way to save karkats life (and her own, and some of the other trolls, but please. we all know karkat was the one she wanted to save). and whether in the retcon timeline or not, terezi has to live with the knowledge that she can't escape vriska's hold on her, and she doesn't even want to. she's damaged goods, because she should HATE vriska; everyone else does, and shes done so many awful things, but terezi apparently cant live without her. and that breaks her in both timelines; more dramatically without the retcon, but still in the retcon timeline as well; she just is able to hide behind vriska's force of personality more in that timeline, just go along with the person she's stuck with by her own volition. so no, her self worth issues didnt come out of nowhere.

#it me #homestuck #terezi pyrope #vriska serket #karkat vantas #dave strider #vrisrezi #karezi #daverezi #fun fact this is why I really really like johnrezi! #like not to bring narrative symbolism into it but terezi feels really stuck in her position with vriska #and who better to free her than an heir of breath! #the johnrezi meat timeline was really good actually change my mind #I DO like vrisrezi dont get me wrong but like. idk man!!! vriska hasnt proven shes good for terezi yet!!! #(vriska) can be tho I believe in her so much #my three big john ships have a theme huh LMAO. dirkjohn vrisjohn johnrezi all like 'okay john can handle this kid' #'no one else can but john absolutely can'